Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, aroused by the public's discovery, officials began to seek to relieve the injustice. Commissioner of Customs F. X. A. Eble visited Manhattan, suggested that duties lower than the regular rate be charged tourists; e.g., that if a man brought in $125 worth of foreign goods, he be allowed his usual $100 exemption and then be taxed, say, 25% ($6.25) instead of, say, 90% ($22.50). The objections to this proposal are that $125 worth of goods at wholesale rates are worth $80 or $85 and should not be taxed at all; that such an arbitrary scaling down...
...Black, otherwise known as the Junior Senator from Alabama- Junior, that is, to the Hon. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin-appeared in Washington traffic court last week because his automobile had been in collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior...
...man who serves for 34 years in the minor offices of a city government is lucky when he dies if he receives a stick of type in a local newspaper. But when Michael J. Pendergast, the peak of whose official career was to be City Clerk of Kansas City, Mo., died last week he re- ceived sticks of type across the continent and many politicians said, "Poor Mike...
...Michael Pendergast was the son of James Pendergast, grand old man of Democracy in Kansas City. Before he was 21 Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand man...
...Commodore Marries. There is a theory, generally despised, that reality has nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than most men and better off. Such a man was Commodore Trunnion...